Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the minister representing the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations: Your government has rushed the implementation of the previous Liberal government's new Workforce Australia program, providing only a 30-day suspension of mutual obligations, which ended last week. You've now provided an additional 30-day suspension, but only for points based activities, so people who can't attend their required appointments are still at risk of losing their payments, even when it's the broken system that has allocated them to service providers who are too far away or don't meet their accessibility needs. Will you commit to extending a pause on all mutual obligations for at least 90 days to ensure that no-one loses their payments during this cost-of-living crisis?